Four peshawar bus stands incur rs800 million loss

The auditor general of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has raised the audit objections stating that the Department of Local Government was directed to implement electronic bidding system under which bidding was process was completed at 20 percent additional price. If no decision is taken in the electronic process for the first time, then the advertisement will be issued under the old process. On July 17, 2014, the Local Government Department also directed electronic tendering in all the subsidiaries to ensure transparency. However, according to the records of the Director General City District Government, the method of electronic contract was not adopted during the financial year 2019-20 and more than Rs400 million has been collected from all the factories on a daily basis while the said collection has been made without any agreement. No employee of the director general's office was associated with the contractor and there was no record of stationery issued to the contractor. The audit objection said that the whole process was due to poor financial management. If the same contract had been issued electronically by the district government, the public exchequer could have earned more. According to sources, awarding contracts for 4 bus stands on a daily basis caused an annual loss of Rs800.57 million to the exchequer. The highest collection of Rs864, 000 from Peshawar bus terminal, Rs161,500 from Charsadda bus stand and Rs63,000 from Karkhano bus stand has been made on daily basis. Annual revenue from four bus stands is Rs230.94 million from Peshawar bus terminal, Rs70.35 million from Kohat bus stand, Rs60.44 million from Charsadda bus stand and Rs20.27 million from Karkhano bus stand. The term of all the local bodies was completed during the financial year 2019-20, after which the deputy commissioners for the districts were appointed as administrators of the city district government.